The Avenue (L'avenue)

1899

Ambroise Vollard

Artist, French, 1866 - 1939

Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

Edouard Vuillard

Printer, French, 1868 - 1940

Edouard Vuillard

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on China paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 30 x 40 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 33.4 x 44.9 cm (13 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.267

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roger-Marx 1948, no. 33, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1950.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Vollard, Connoisseur: Modern French Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950 – 1951, no cat.

1951

  • French Nineteenth-Century, Maryville College, TN, 1951.

1953

  • Nineteenth-Century Prints by French Painter-Printmakers from the Rosenwald Collection, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1953.

1954

  • Lithographs by Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954.

1963

  • American Federation of Arts, 1963.

1967

  • Selection of Post-Impressionist and Expressionist Prints, from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1967.

1970

  • Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.

1977

  • Prints of Paris: The 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no cat.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Avenue.

2000

  • Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 68, as L'Avenue, from Paysages et intérieurs.

Bibliography

1948

  • Roger-Marx, Claude. L'Oeuvre grave de Vuillard. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1948.

2000

  • Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001: no. 68.

Inscriptions

lower left, in graphite: 42; verso, lower left, in graphite: 181.21.42

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65222761

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